Salve Pectinari et gratias

What she wrote has long been known. It is one of the things Livy mentions. The Senate called Etruscan harupsices to Rome to consult on certain prodigies and to examine the entrails of sacrificial victims. In doing so, however, they distinguished Etruscan divination as something separate from Latin techniques of divination. In no way does that support the view some have expressed that Roman augury originated with Etruscans rather than Latins as tradition holds. Etruscan harupsicy is not Latin augury. The Romans also sent delegations to Greek oracles. They employed the Sibylline Oracles that came from Campania. They also distinguished in amongst different Latin oracles, as when the Senate prohibited consul Lutatius Cerco in 242/41 from consulting the lots of Praeneste on a matter of public business for which a 'foreign' oracle was deemed inappropriate. It is the same as when consul Gracchus chided the Etruscan harspice as a barbarian. It is faulty reasoning to lump together all the different forms of divination that the Romans consulted and then assume a single origin for what the Romans obviously considered to have had different origins.